Episode 39 - The Crypto Wars

08/03/21 • 11 min

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by Aliyah Weaver

This episode of One-Time Pod focuses on the 1990s “crypto wars,” a power struggle between the government and the American public. How much privacy does the general American public deserve in terms of encryption, and what are the limits of the government’s surveillance of the American public?

References:

Bankston, K., Kehl, D., Wilson, A. (2015). Doomed to Repeat history? Lessons from the Crypto Wars of the 1990s. New America. https://static.newamerica.org/attachments/3407-doomed-to-repeat-history-lessons-from-the-crypto-wars-of-the-1990s/Crypto%20Wars_ReDo.7cb491837ac541709797bdf868d37f52.pdf. Accessed March 30, 2021.

Freeh, L. J. (1998). Statement for the Record of Louis J. Freeh, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence [Speech transcript]. The Avalon Project by Yale Law School. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/t_0011.asp. Accessed March 30, 2021.

Lewis, J. A. (2021). The Crypto Wars Are Over. Center for Strategic and International Studies. https://www.csis.org/analysis/crypto-wars-are-over. Accessed March 30, 2021.

Peterson, A. (2019). Today’s Internet users are still being hurt By ’90s-era U.S. encryption policies. The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/05/28/todays-internet-users-are-still-being-hurt-by-90s-era-u-s-encryption-policies/. Accessed March 30, 2021.

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by Aliyah Weaver

References:

Lewis, J. A. (2021). The Crypto Wars Are Over. Center for Strategic and International Studies. https://www.csis.org/analysis/crypto-wars-are-over. Accessed March 30, 2021.

Sound effects: Apple iMovie stock sound effects

Image: “MYK78 Clipper Chip,” Travis Goodspeed, Flickr CC BY

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Episode 38 - Carpenter v. United States

by Kurt Urban

Here’s a story about a man sentenced to 116 years in prison. He appealed his conviction all the way to the Supreme Court... and won. The court’s controversial ruling dramatically changed a new and fast-growing field of law, one that could shape the future of US society. In this episode of One-Time Pod, how the courts are upending the battle between privacy and surveillance.

Bibliography

Auxier, B., Rainie, L., Anderson, M., Perrin, A., Kumar, M., & Turner, E. (2020, August 17). Americans and Privacy: Concerned, Confused and Feeling Lack of Control Over Their Personal Information. Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/11/15/americans-and-privacy-concerned-confused-and-feeling-lack-of-control-over-their-personal-information/.

Carpenter v. United States, 585 U.S. ___ (2018)

United States v. Moalin, No. 13-50572 (9th Cir. 2020)

Findlaw Attorney Writers. (2018, April 3). Right to Privacy In the Workplace In the Information Age. Findlaw. https://corporate.findlaw.com/law-library/right-to-privacy-in-the-workplace-in-the-information-age.html.

DeMarco, J. V., & Fox, B. A. (2019, April 1). Data rights and data wrongs: Civil litigation and the new privacy norms. https://www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/data-rights-and-data-wrongs.

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Kerr, O. S. (2020, September 8). Did the Ninth circuit create a new Fourth Amendment notice requirement for Surveillance Practices? https://reason.com/volokh/2020/09/08/did-the-ninth-circuit-create-a-new-fourth-amendment-notice-requirement-for-surveillance-practices/.

Music:

Hitman by Kevin MacLeod

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Comfortable Mystery 4 by Kevin MacLeod

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Beauty Flow by Kevin MacLeod

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Floating Cities by Kevin Macleod

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Episode 40 - Gait Recognition

by Ethan Barr

In this podcast I bring awareness to the future of surveillance, through gait recognition, while also describing the way it has developed over the recent years. This idea of being identifiable through the way you walk brings up the questions of whether it is an intrusion to one’s privacy or strictly a moral form of surveillance. These questions are left unanswered in the podcast, but through the information available to you, as the audience, think about the stance and how you perceive this type of surveillance. I wanted this podcast to draw those thoughts by being informative and interesting. I hope this podcast can get you thinking about the way you are being watched and how easily identifiable everyone may be in the near future.

Sources:

Giles, J. (2012, September 19). Cameras know you by your walk. New Scientist. Retrieved from https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528835-600-cameras-know-you-by-your-walk/

Kang, D. (2018, November 06). Chinese ‘gait recognition’ TECH Ids people by how they walk. Associated Press. Retrieved from https://apnews.com/article/bf75dd1c26c947b7826d270a16e2658a

Xu, S. (2020, August 5). Emotion Recognition From Gait Analyses: Current Research and Future Directions (Rep.). Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.11461.pdf

Schmelzer, R. (2020, July 1). Can AI Detect Your Emotion Just By How You Walk? Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2020/03/29/can-ai-detect-your-emotion-just-by-how-you-walk/?sh=3607c8f169de.

Image: “Just Walk on By,” Alexa Clark, Flickr, CC BY-NC